He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Don't be afraid to be successful, and keep in your mind that you don't have another choice be successful or be successful

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

What you desire you call into being.

In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you've just described hell.

At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will.

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.

Whenever I go to a new city, in order to help get on the right time zone and actually get a chance to see that city, I like running.

That's what got me through 65 years of life - my belief in God and what He's done for us and what He will do for us.